Snowmom- I have a Frank Benton Jones, brother of James Crockett Jones b. 1882 in my family Hmmm..... there has to be a connection somewhere in there- Benton County is only 2 counties north of where my family was located in Freemont County at the time of the 1880 IA census.
My Jones family lived in Sidney, Freemont, IA at that time.